On the compact operators case of the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius (Q2041225)

This work is devoted to study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for the numerical radius in the case of compact operators (BPBp-nu for compact operators in short). This research lies within the rapidly developing branch of Banach space theory which studies vector-valued versions of the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem. The interested reader will find a complete account of the state of the art on the matter in the detailed introduction of the paper under review. The main result of the paper proves that \(C_0(L)\) spaces have the BPBp-nu for compact operators for every Hausdorff topological locally compact space \(L\), improving a previously known result for some real \(C(K)\) spaces. In the words of the authors, this is achieved by combining two main ingredients. The first one is an abstract way to lift the BPBp-nu for compact operators from a subspace to the whole space under some restrictions. As an elaborated corollary of this result, the authors obtain that isometric preduals of \(\ell_1\) have the BPBp-nu for compact operators. The second ingredient is some kind of strong approximation property of \(C_0(L)\) spaces and their duals, which is very interesting in itself. In particular, it allows to construct a net of norm-one projections on \(C_0(L)\), with ranges isometrically isomorphic to finite-dimensional \(\ell_\infty\) spaces, converging in the strong operator topology to the identity of \(C_0(L)\) and such that the net consisting of the adjoints of the projections converges in the strong operator topology to the identity of \(C_0(L)^*\). Finally, it is also shown that real Hilbert spaces have the BPBp-nu for compact operators.